Lading tie anchor means



Aug. 30, 1955 M. s. JOHNSON 2,716,384

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15 jl/alag m a; rfaizzs'ozz S -16 gig United States Patent LADING TIE ANCHOR MEANS Malcolm S. Johnson, Flossmoor, Ill., assignor to Illinois Railway Equipment Company, Chicago, Ill., 21 corporation of Illinois Application February 9, 1953, Serial No. 335,629

7 Claims. (Cl. 105-369) My invention relates particularly to an anchor especially intended for securing the lading in lined railroad freight or house cars against shifting during transit without, however, defacing or subjecting the car lining to the pulling strains resulting from the lurching of the car lading.

The invention has for its object, the provision of a tie-receiving member or fastening anchor which will lie flush with the car lining and which may be readily and securely applied without need for separate fastening means or certain skillful operations.

The invention also has for its object, the provision of an anchor which will effect interlocking angagement with the metallic structural posts of the car, which conventionally are of Z-bar cross-section; the anchor and its interlocking engagement with the metallic structural post being such that the strains will be directly applied to the web or main body of the car post.

The objects and advantages of my invention will be readily comprehended from the detailed description of the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of portions of certain of the conventional structural side wall members of a freight car with one of my improved anchors applied and portions of the car lining shown applied.

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view as viewed on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view as viewed along the line 33 of Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrows; with portions of the outer wall sheet and portions of car lining boards shown above and beneath the anchor.

My invention contemplates a particular type of lading tie anchor in conjunction with the conventional structural metal side wall Z-bar posts of railroad house or box cars, whereby the pulling strains encountered by the anchor are directly transmitted to the main body portion or web of the Z-posts without subjecting the car inner lining boards to the destructive strains.

The invention also contemplates an interengaging relation between the anchor and the structural post which may be efiected without need for extraneous means for effecting the interengaging or interlocking relation and which will permit any desired elevational positioning of the anchors between car roof and floor before application of the car lining and consequently will also permit repositioning of the anchor in the event of relining of the car.

In railroad car construction, the Z-bar posts are arranged with the body or web of the post disposed in a direction transversely of the car, thereby presenting the inner flat flange of the Z-bar parallel with the inner wall of the car as disclosed at in Figure 1, extending from the car roof member or side plate 11 to the car floor; sections of the car bottom or floor board inner lining being shown at 12.

The section of the structural wall or Z-bar post 10, preferably adjacent the upper end, has an interrupted or cut-out flange at 13; the cut-out being of predetermined dimensions to accommodate the leg or bar of the anchor 14 during application of the anchor.

The anchor 14 may consist of a suitable metal or cast malleable iron preferably of rectangular form and generally of thickness corresponding with the thickness of the car lining elements or boards, with a flat outer wall or face and with flat-faced ends as at 15, Figures 1 and 2, to enable the lining boards 16 at opposite ends of the anchor to have snug abutting relation with the anchor.

The upper longitudinal edge of the anchor is preferably provided with a longitudinal tongue 17, corresponding to and aligning with the tongues 18 on the lining boards; the tongue 17 being formed and positioned to match and fit into the groove of the superposed lining board; the boards being of the well-known tongue and groove construction.

The anchors, which are of prescribed thickness, are provided with a dished cavity 19 extending lengthwise as shown in Figure 2, with the ends of the cavity sloping outwardly and terminating at the outer face of the anchor in the openings 20, 20; the openings being spaced by the integral vertically extending bar 21 about which the tie element is secured. The front wall of the anchor is preferably made to extend slightly beneath the body portion in order to provide the depending lip 22 which will overlap the longitudinal tongue 18 of the subjacent lining board 16.

The ends of the anchor are extended slightly rearward beyond the plane of the body and terminate in laterally disposed flanges 23, 24, see Figure 2. The anchor end and its flange 24 extends rearward beyond the plane of the inner flange 10a of the Z-bar 10 and hence overlaps and rests against the main body or web of the Z-bar 10 as shown in Figure 2 and thus transmits lateral strains encountered by the anchor to the heavy rigid section of the Z-bar.

With the flange 24 extending laterally beyond the plane of the body-end of the anchor, the flange also provides a backing or support for the end of the lining element or board 16 against outward pressure.

The laterally disposed flange 23 at the opposite end of the anchor likewise provides a backing or support for the adjacent end of the lining board 16 at the left of the anchor against outward pressure.

The rear of the anchor is provided with a transversely disposed leg 26 formed integral at one end with one end of the body of the anchor and preferably provided with longitudinally disposed reenforcing ribs 27, which may also be integral with the flange 23, as shown in Figure 2.

The leg 26 extends substantially throughout the length of the body of the anchor and terminates at predetermined short distance removed from the vertical plane of the flange 24, approximately the usual normal thickness of the web or body of the Z-bar structural post 10, sufiicient to receive the web of the car post 10 between the flange 24 on the body of the anchor and the outer end of the leg 26 and thus prevent any lateral play of the anchor, while transmitting all lateral strains encountered by the anchor to the web or main body of the structural post 10.

In order to compensate for slight variations in the thickness of the flange 10a of the structural post 10, the leg 26 is sufliciently removed from the post flange as shown in Figure 2, but in order to effect a firm relation between the leg 26 and the post flange 10a, I provide the inner face of the leg 26 with a continuous transversely disposed boss or rib or with a number of studs as shown at 28, 28, in Figure 2, whereby a firm frictional relation with the flange 10a of the structural post 10 is provided and vibration or chatter of the anchor prevented.

With this construction-as shown in the drawingit is apparent that endwise or lateral application of the anchor to the flange of the structural car post is impossible and that the anchor must be edgewisely applied to the end of the car structural post during car construction or at the flange cut-out section shown in Figure 1 at 13. The latter method must be employed in a constructed carwhere the car is being relined. The anchor as shown is edgewisely applied and then forcibly driven to along the structural post to the desired elevation or location of the anchor.

In the drawing, the distance between the free end and the base of the leg or flange overlapping portion is shown somewhat greater than the normal or conventional widths of structural post flanges to compensate for the tolerances in the fabrication of the posts; an essence of my improved anchor means existing in transmitting the strains encountered by the anchor directly to the main body of the structural post without need for other extraneous elements.

What I claim is:

1. Tie anchor means of the character described comprising, in combination with a railroad car having an inner wall and a structural metal post of angular crosssection with a laterally disposed flange; a single-piece tie receiving anchor having a body whose forward face extends flush with the car inner wall and has a tie receiving channel intersected between its ends by a tie attaching bar integral with the body of the anchor, one end of the anchor body having a rearwardly disposed lug adapted to engage one side of said structural post to hold the anchor body against transverse movement in one direction, while the rear side of the anchor body has an integral leg extending in spaced and substantially parallel relation with the rear side of the anchor body and terminates in a plane removed from the vertical plane of said lug and substantially equal to the thickness of the body or web portion of said structural post so as to engage the latter on its side opposite to its engagement by said lug and to overlap the laterally disposed flange of said structural post and effect wedging relation therewith.

2. A tie anchor for railroad house cars having vertically disposed structural posts and lining board means therealong comprising, a tie anchor adapted to bear against a structural post and extend through to be substantially flush with the car lining and form a continuation thereof, tie element receiving means on the front side of said anchor, the anchor between its upper and lower sides and at one end having a reversely disposed integral portion spaced from the rear side and extending substantially beyond its central portion to receive a portion of a car structural post therebetween.

3. A tie anchor for railroad house cars having structural wall posts and tongued and grooved inner lining boards of substantially uniform width and thickness comprising, a rectangular unit of substantially the same width and thickness as said lining boards so that the unit can be used as a continuation of a lining board and having a tie element receiving portion on the forward side, the upper side of the unit having a tongue to interfit with the groove of the lining board thereabove and the lower side of the unit having a depending flange constituting an extension of the forward side for overlying the tongue of the lining board therebelow, the unit between its upper and lower sides and at one end having a reversely disposed integral portion spaced from the rear side and extending substantially beyond its central portion to receive a portion of a car structural post between said integral portion and said rear side.

4. A tie anchor for railroad house cars having structural wall posts and tongued and grooved inner lining boards of substantially uniform width and thickness comprising, a rectangular unit of substantially the same width and thickness as said lining boards so that the unit can be used as a continuation of a lining board and having a tie element receiving portion on the forward side, the upper side of the unit having a tongue to interfit with the groove of the lining board thereabove and the lower side of the unit having a depending flange constituting an extension of the forward side for overlying the tongue of the lining board therebelow, the unit between its upper and lower sides and at one end having a reversely disposed integral portion spaced from the rear side and extending substantially beyond its central portion to receive a portion of a car structural post,

between said integral portion and said rear side, said unit at said one end having endwise extending flange means for engaging the rear side of the juxtaposed end of the lining board of which the unit constitutes an extension for backing up the same and holding it against pressure movement of car lading.

5. Tie anchor means of the character described comprising in combination with the structural metal post of Z-bar cross section of a railroad car provided with inner wall board lining; a single piece anchor member the body whereof is provided on its outer face with a tie receiving channel intermediate the ends of the body and a transversely disposed tie attaching bar intermediate the ends of the channel, one end of the anchor body having a rearwardly disposed lug adapted to engage one side of the web or main body of said structural post to hold the anchor against transverse movement in one direction and formed to provide backing for the adjacent abutting end of the cut lining board, while the rear side of the anchor body has an integral elongated leg extending transversely of and in predetermined spaced relation with the rear of the anchor body and terminating a distance removed from said lug, substantially equal to the thickness of the web or main body of said Z-bar post so as to abut there against and to overlap the adjacent lateral flange of said post and prevent transverse movement of the anchor in the opposite direction, the inner face of said leg having a Z-bar flange wedging surface and the other end of the anchor body having a rearwardly and laterally disposed lining board supporting lug.

6. Tie anchor means of the character described comprising, in combination with a railroad car structural metal post of Z-bar cross-section whose flanges extend laterally in a direction lengthwise of the car with the flange-disposed parallel with the inner lining of the car cut away to a predetermined extent at a prearranged location, an anchor member the body portion whereof is provided with a tie receiving channel, an integral tie attaching bar intermediate the ends and disposed trans-' versely of said channel, one end of said anchor body having a rearwardly disposed lug adapted to engage one side of the web or main body of said structural post to hold the anchor body against transverse movement in one direction, while the rear side of the anchor body has a leg extending transversely of the rear of the anchor body in predetermined spaced relation therewith to overlap the car post flange and terminating a predetermined distance removed from said lug and engaging the other side of the web or main body of the structural post, the car post flange overlapping face of said leg being provided with a flange wedging surface whereby accidental shifting of the anchor body is prevented.

7. Tie anchor means of the character described comprising in combination with a railroad car metallic flanged structural post Whose flange is disposed laterally; a single piece anchor member provided with a tie receiving cavity and a tie attaching bar on its forward face disposed transversely of said cavity, opposite ends of the anchor member being provided with laterally and rearwardly disposed lining boards overlapping and supporting flanges, one of said flanges being arranged to bearagainst the main body portion of the car structural post, and a structural post flange overlapping elongated portion integral with and spaced from the rear of the anchor member and arranged in conjunction with said anchor flange to 5 6 transmit pulling strains encountered by the anchor mem- 2,226,667 Love Dec. 31, 1940 her to the main body of the structural car post. 2,359,146 Odell Sept. 26, 1944 2,601,103 Dietrichson June 17, 1952 References Cited in the file of this patent 2, 0 ,1 7 Han-is 2 1952 N ED T E P E S 5 2, 3 63 Clar May 12, 1953 1,196,087 Crume Aug. 29, 1916 

